The thicket
By: Joe R. Lansdale
Edition: Large print edition.
Series: Thorndike Press large print peer picks
Publisher: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Waterville, Maine
Language: eng
Number of pages: 465
ISBN-13: 9781410470782; 9781444822755
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Large type books; Orphans; Kidnapping; Fiction
Description: Jack Parker thought he'd already seen his fair share of tragedy. His grandmother was killed in a farm accident when he was barely five years old. His parents have just succumbed to the smallpox epidemic sweeping turn-of-the-century East Texas -- orphaning him and his younger sister, Lula. Then catastrophe strikes on the way to their uncle's farm, when a traveling group of bank-robbing bandits murder Jack's grandfather and kidnap his sister. With no elders left for miles, Jack must grow up fast and enlist a band of heroes the likes of which has never been seen if his sister stands any chance at survival. But the best he can come up with is a charismatic, bounty-hunting dwarf named Shorty, a grave-digging son of an ex-slave named Eustace, and a street-smart woman-for-hire named Jimmie Sue who's come into some very intimate knowledge about the bandits (and a few members of Jack's extended family to boot). In the throes of being civilized, East Texas is still a wild, feral place. Oil wells spurt liquid money from the ground. But as Jack's about to find out, blood and redemption rule supreme.